Dance Day marked by ballet featuring Tsygankova, Golding

BELGRADE - The International Dance Day was marked in Belgrade with the Don Quixote ballet produced by the National Theatre of Serbia.

Prima-ballerina of the National Ballet from Amsterdam, Anna Tsygankova, and a principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London, Matthew Golding, premiered in front of the Belgrade audience in the Sava Centre on Wednesday evening.

Tsygankova was outstanding in her performance of Kitri, a beautiful daughter of an innkeeper, while Golding, her partner on and off the stage, interpreted the role of a poor barber Basilio, her beloved.

The show involved entire ensemble of the Ballet of the National Theatre, including Goran Stanic as Don Quixote and Milos Kecman as Sancho Panza. The orchestra performed under the baton of Vesna Souc, while costumes and decoration were done by Olga Mrdjenovic and Boris Maksimovic respectively.

The ballet was performed for the first time on the National Theatre's stage in 1931, and restaged for the last time by the famous Russian dancer and choreographer Vladimir Vasiliev in 2007.

Photo Tanjug, M. Jelesijevic